Public news about the A350 XWB collected in the web.
Follow these and more news in Twitter @A350Blog

14 January 2013

Latécoère Group: French tier1´s diversified participation in the A350 XWB

Latécoère,
the French tier 1 which employs 4,175 people in 9 countries, is involved in the
A350 XWB Program in 3 fields:

•
Aerostructures (59% of total revenue): Nose
Fairing

.

As a supplier
of Aerolia, the Nose fairing is a metallic (aluminium) assembly manufactured at
Gimont plant, 50km from Toulouse.
There is a plant with 20 years of background (last 20/Dec/2012 was celebrated
the anniversary of the facility) where there are 180 people working in
manufacturing and assembly of fuselage sections for Boeing, Dassault and
Airbus.

Nose fairing assembly at Gimont

•
Interconnexion systems (27% of total revenue): LATelec is the company within the group who manages the
manufacturing of onboard wiring, electrical harnesses and avionics bays.

Fuselage final assy line by LATecis

Electrical harnesses for wings - each A350 XWB
wing assembly includes 40 electrical harnesses that means more than 3,000
electrical connexions, with 21 km of wiring- is the main workpackage of
LATelec. Many functional tests and design activities has been achieved by development
teams that were split among three sites: Toulouse in France, Filton in England
and Bremen in Germany. Assembly and testing were carried out at LATelec’s
factory in Liposthey, in the Bordeaux region.

LATelec also
manufactures onboard avionic racks as well as cockpit control panels (CCP) for
the A350 XWB.

• Engineering
and Services (14% of total revenue): LATecis
is the company with capabilities of design, stress analysis and definition of
industrial products that for A350 XWB has designed, manufactured and set-up
important tooling and assembly lines: the fuselage final assembly line in the
FAL-Toulouse, the assembly line of the wingbox, the automatic engine assembly
line and the Iron Bird assembly line.